Doing a dump, then a drop then a restore does not give you back what you had before. In particular meta-information about a collection such as it being capped and the capped size is not restored. I believe that paddingFactor is also lost although that won't be a functional difference like a collection being capped or not.
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SERVER-808 mongodump should backup indexes when run with --collection option
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